After viewing this heart wrenching video of a mother who has lost her 12-yearold daughter, I was quickly angered and did not understand the complexity of this young girls thinking. I wanted to just embrace the mother and reassure her that she has done enough and pray for her hurt and pain to subside, but I could not move forward with this post knowing there were at least 15 children, middle school students, who were responsible for the young girl’s agony, stress, and death.
No one on this earth knows the lost much greater than that of your child and when something as unnatural as suicide, because of ignorance from their peers is beyond my understanding. Very much like Rebecca’s mother, where did these children learn such hatred? I cannot imagine what this child may have been feeling and experiencing on a daily basis in and out of school. But to take a devastating plunge such as the one Rebecca took, the harassment, terrorizations, fear and disturbances being casted upon her were terrifying enough that she wanted the most immediate and definite ending death. And for that reason alone, justifies the severest punishment under the law should be dealt to not only the 15 children who bullied Rebecca, but any child, adult, etc. The world we
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Enough is enough. Legislation needs to become involved and set new guidelines for bullying, then the penalties imposed can be much stiffer that those suggested for Rebecca’s murderers. Now in the United States because of the onset of bullying, all states with the exception of Montana have anti-bullying laws. Bullies must be arrested before it really starts, because too many people are dying because of bullying (Associated